@cwebber Even if you never use Facebook, Facebook keeps a shadow profile of you. Even if you never set up your account with your bank's website, your bank still has your financial data stored in its database. Even if you never use the computers, your personal data could be leaked, hacked or stolen. Even if you never go online, your identity could be stolen by someone who does.

Being a tech bro is, in part: - treating tech as the solution to every problem (especially where honest to god philanthropy/ altruism would work instead) - assuming/ asserting a meritocracy where evidence points elsewhere

In absence of these, loving and working in tech doesn't make you a tech bro

You're especially not a tech bro if you're working to lower the barrier to entry or improve small, minority based tech communities.

There was a board game in the 1960s that was actually a mechanical computer, intended to be single human player. Despite only consisting of a few plastic levers that store less than one byte of RAM, the computer was smart enough that it could always win!

I'm still trying to make a roleplaying game every month about a weird D&D monster. I missed making a game for June, but my game for July is about anthropomorphic dinosaur people building a new life in an unfamiliar world.

@JacobSKellogg That depends a lot on where you are located. You are apparently in Minnesota, which has open primaries. So you can vote in any party's primary without declaring as a member of the party. You can only vote for candidates in one party's primary, though. If you mark votes for both Democratic primary races and for Republican races, your vote will be thrown out.

I just spent a sodding hour and a half on the phone with Verizon, and I'd bitch about it but there's little point since everyone already knows that they're shit. The USA desperately needs regulators who aren't afraid to take a chainsaw to enormous corporations like this, cut them into chunks and force competition to happen.